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AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification - Part 14

Mary Smith

Tue, 18 Nov 2025

AWS Certified Developer - Associate Certification - Part 14

1. To include objects defined by the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) in an AWS CloudFormation template, in addition to Resources, what section MUST be included in the document root?

A) Transform
B) Properties
C) Globals
D) Conditions



2. Where can PortMapping be defined when launching containers in Amazon ECS?

A) Task definition
B) Security groups
C) Container agent
D) Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amzon ECR)



3. A Developer needs to design an application running on AWS that will be used to consume Amazon SQS messages that range from 1 KB up to 1GB in size. How should the Amazon SQS messages be managed?

A) Use Amazon S3 and the Amazon SQS CLI.
B) Use Amazon S3 and the Amazon SQS Extended Client Library for Java.
C) Use Amazon EFS and the Amazon SQS CLI.
D) Use Amazon EBS and the Amazon SQS CLI.



4. A company has an AWS CloudFormation template that is stored as a single file. The template is able to launch and create a full infrastructure stack. Which best practice would increase the maintainability of the template?

A) Remove mappings to decrease the number of variables.
B) Embed credentials to prevent typos.
C) Use
D) Use nested stacks for common template patterns.



5. A game stores user game data in an Amazon DynamoDB table. Individual users should not have access to other users' game data. How can this be accomplished?

A) Read records from DynamoDB and discard irrelevant data client-side.
B) Restrict access to specific items based on certain primary key values.
C) Encrypt the game data with individual user keys.
D) Stage data in SQS queues to inject metadata before accessing DynamoDB.



1. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/lambda-functions.html

2. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/userguide/task_definition_parameters.html

3. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-limits.html

4. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html

5. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/specifying-conditions.html

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